Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been involved in peace feelers from Hanoi. The nature and tone of that meeting are not at issue; previous stories made clear that it was hostile and bitter. Since the tension between the President and the Senator kept growing-and is of national political significance-we tried to reconstruct the details of the meeting via many conversations that White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey had with sources close to the Johnson and Kennedy camps...
Aphoristic Armory. McLuhan himself works his readers over with aphorisms and jokes. "If we were to dispose of the city right now," he says, "future societies would reconstruct them, like so many Williamsburgs." Of Renaissance art, which he blames for placing Western man "outside the frame of reference," he says: "A piazza for everything and everything in its piazza." Telstar, movies and jetliners have generated "a worldpool of information"; the clash of cultures in the modern world is a "collide-oscope"; television programming is "the charge of the light brigade." As a result of the information explosion occasioned by modern...
...pressed against a web treated with chemicals that developed it. After drying, the negative was scanned electronically, one narrow (one-tenth of an inch) strip at a time. Because each strip was electronically divided into 17,000 horizontal lines, enough picture information could be radioed back to earth to reconstruct prints showing almost as much detail as the original...
...bore the name of Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made in 1534 from a bison that roamed Central Europe, celebrates a mine dating back to prehistoric times. Offered in the king's name by the mine-owner to his well-organized craft guild, its backbreaking gesture seemingly...
...Ford grant were cut off than if we'd never gotten it in the first place. It'd be difficult to have to give up the extra secretaries, the xerox machines, to think back after we've expanded so much." More importantly, it would be difficult to reconstruct the creative dialogue without the funds to keep attracting top-notch teachers...